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HomeCorps Partnership Grants: Crisis Response Innovation Grants

Utilizing funds recovered by the AGO through the nationwide state-federal settlement over unlawful foreclosures, the Office of Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley (AGO) is pleased to announce the HomeCorps Partnership Grants: Crisis Response Innovation Grants (Crisis Response Innovation Grant), which is designed to assist Massachusetts homeowners and renters impacted by the foreclosure crisis, to mitigate the impacts of the foreclosure crisis on our citizens and communities, and to guard against future financial harm like that witnessed during the foreclosure crisis.

Below is a list of grantees. Should you have questions about an individual program, please click the respective link:

Funding will help double the amount of clients assisted by hiring new staff to expand financial counseling capacity with individual counseling, loan modification assistance, and homebuyer education classes. Additionally, ACT, Inc. will rehabilitate four units of housing.

Grant funds will be used to hire a Housing Counselor and a Housing Advocate in order to assist more clients through one-on-one foreclosure counseling including loan modifications and mitigation, financial literacy and credit rebuilding, and homeownership education.

ESAC will increase the its capacity to provide foreclosure prevention counseling and will work with clients on submitting loan modifications and refinance agreements and other alternative strategies to prevent foreclosure.

Funding will be granted to provide consumer financial education, individual financial counseling, employment assistance referrals, and group foreclosure prevention workshops to the Western Massachusetts region.

Grant funding will be used to conduct statewide outreach to senior citizens and to add three additional financial counseling staff in order to increase the capacity for HOME to better serve senior citizens statewide.

Grant funding will be used to provide individual financial counseling and first-time homebuyer education and trainings. Classes will be available in English, Spanish, and Khmer and will address financial literacy and homeownership education.

Funding to hire four new housing counselors in Boston, Lawrence and Springfield to provide loan modification and foreclosure mitigation services.

Neighborhood Housing Services of the South Shore, Brockton, MAServicing: Brockton, New Bedford

Funding to hire three foreclosure prevention counselors to assist with one-one-one counseling for loan modification and home preservation, and to provide financial literacy education workshops on avoiding mortgage scams and foreclosure prevention.

Expand foreclosure prevention services to the North Shore with a special focus on Hispanic households. Through a bilingual staff, clients will receive foreclosure housing and assistance – aiming for the ultimate goal of mortgage modifications but also assisting with short sales, non-profit purchase, and other alternative measures. Clients will also have access to first-time homebuyer and credit smart financial literacy courses.

Funding will be using to hire one additional financial literacy counselor who will incorporate financial literacy curriculum into pre and post foreclosure individual and group counseling and education.

The Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School will receive funding to hire two attorneys with experience in housing and foreclosure defense and eviction defense to oversee Law School Students to provide representation for homeowners facing foreclosure and former homeowners and tenants facing post-foreclosure eviction.